Telling the story of a group of cats called the Jellicles, the musical takes us through the Jellicle Ball, where once a year the leader of the Jellicles, Old Deuteronomy, will choose one cat to ascend into the Heavyside Layer (the cat’s version of heaven) to be reborn into a new life, which is called the ‘Jellicle choice’. It is a strange, almost fever dream-like journey, where cats sing and dance during the ball, each presenting itself as a candidate for rebirth.
SINGAPORE (Dec 20): From now until January 5, 2020, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musical, Cats, based off the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, is back to delight audiences in Singapore.
Cats first opened to positive reviews in the London West End in 1981, and while the unusual premise of the musical was initially met with scepticism, it has since proven to be one of the longest-running, most successful musicals ever.
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